Frigging MSFT, bought a new 10 pc, runs fine, installed adobe reader, I've set it to the default program to open PDF files, and for some reason it keeps getting changed back to MSFT Edge as the default.

Right Mouse click set program open up and set to Adobe, I'll be damned if 10 minutes or an hour later next pdf I open it used Edge.

Done it in the Settings/system section as well hell confirmed it was Adobe and then bam, back to Edge....

I've done both the suggested methods, and it switches back..

https://www.windowscentral.com...df-reader-windows-10

Russian Apple Agents.

your mistake was downgrading from any other useful OS to Windows 10

I refuse to update from XP Pro because of the tracking, spyware and logging as well as random monitoring and data dumps back to whomever

I'm not a brilliant IT guy, just a mid level user and frankly its just easier to dump Win 10 and go with something that works well

^^^^^ You guys aren't helpful.

HRK do you need Adobe for any specific reason? We've had this issue at a corporate level and finally tried Foxit PDF reader and it seems to not let Windows take PDF back, unless we roll out a major version update. 1803->1903 for instance.

I don't need adobe per se but I do have Acrobat that I need to reinstall and of course get get the privilidge of upgrading and paing sillycone valley more money since I do have to create and modify pdf files.

If you have an alternative I'm all ears.

The MSFT edge is quite limited, I have forms that have print to file, print imbedded button and a few other things that edge can't run

And familiarity with adobe.

I'll try foxit pdf just get get rid of the edge issue...

Found another issue, if I do get the software to default to adobe dc when I print to PDF using the built in MSFT pdf printer it won't print a pdf it prints some bizarre file

Probably have to upgrade acrobat to have the full monty and give MSFT the fickled finger of fate award

IS MSEdge your default browser? Try changing that.

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Originally posted by Shaql:
IS MSEdge your default browser? Try changing that.

Thanks, no I use Chrome....

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I refuse to update from XP Pro because of the tracking, spyware and logging as well as random monitoring and data dumps back to whomever

This is dangerous advice that opens you up to all kinds of other problems. Microsoft quit providing security patches for Windows XP five years ago. Any current installation of Windows XP is full of known security vulnerabilities just sitting around waiting to be exploited.

yeah you should at least move up to 8 for security reasons, 10 is actually pretty good, and some of the things I'm dealing with are learning curves and some of it typical software bugs.

Hell apple bricked my ipad with ios 13 update, finally got it up and reset the ios and haven't upgraded the ipad again...

I'll wait until the next ios update...

How are you setting the default app?

Try this:

Go to Settings.
Click Apps.
Choose Default apps.
Go to the right part and scroll all the way down.
Click on Set default by app.
Then choose the app that you want set as default.
Restart your PC.

Alternatively, I found this article.

https://www.winhelponline.com/...-working-windows-10/

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
your mistake was downgrading from any other useful OS to Windows 10

I refuse to update from XP Pro because of the tracking, spyware and logging as well as random monitoring and data dumps back to whomever

I'm not a brilliant IT guy , just a mid level user and frankly its just easier to dump Win 10 and go with something that works well

So you want to dump the whole thing because of a trivial issue like this?

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Originally posted by Shaql:
IS MSEdge your default browser? Try changing that.

Thanks, no I use Chrome....

Uninstall Edge.

I don't see the data mining, logging and sending information without my consent to be trivial issues

I'd rather give up the facade of 'security' and do what I can to maintain my privacy

I recall a quote from someone about that somewhere...

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I don't see the data mining, logging and sending information without my consent to be trivial issues

I'd rather give up the facade of 'security' and do what I can to maintain my privacy

I recall a quote from someone about that somewhere...

The "trivial" issue is just changing a default.
Data mining has nothing to do with this.